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Bare-knuckle fighting could be poised for a US boom
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In this Thursday, Aug. 16, 2018 photo trainer John Bastable, wraps Bec Rawlings wrists prior to a bare-knuckle sparring session at City of Angels Boxing Club in Los Angeles. Rawlings is a longtime UFC fighter who will fight on the second sanctioned bare-knuckle boxing show in the U.S. in over a century on Saturday, Aug. 25, in Biloxi, Miss.
LOS ANGELES — David Feldman staged a bare-knuckle boxing match on the undercard of a mixed martial arts show at a Yavapai Nation casino in Arizona in 2011. The promoter offered the fight on the internet as a paid streaming option, just to see if anybody would watch it.